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[Omikor]

I have a question. Let's say I'm playing Call of Duty modern warfare battle royale game. According to the Task Manager, I'm using between 90 to 100 percent of my CPU and 12% of my GPU. Does it mean I can bump the resolution up without affecting the fps? What does CPU bottleneck mean?

[minibois]

1 minute ago, Omikor said:

According to the Task Manager, I'm using between 90 to 100 percent of my CPU and 12% of my GPU. Does it mean I can bump the resolution up without affecting the fps?

Yes, basically that is what it would mean.

Resolution only impact the GPU.

1 minute ago, Omikor said:

What does CPU bottleneck mean?

It means the game demands much more from your CPU than your GPU.

 

What CPU+GPU combo do you have?

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, Omikor said:

Does it mean I can bump the resolution up without affecting the fps? What does CPU bottleneck mean?

CPU bottleneck means the CPU isn't fast enough to provide the data the GPU requires to work at full capacity.

 

For example if you're running at 60 fps, the GPU needs to render a new image every 16.6 ms. If the CPU needs e.g. 32 ms to provide the data necessary for each frame, the GPU can't complete the frame in 16.6 ms, so you might fall back to say 30 fps even though the GPU would be capable of more.

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Omikor said:

What does CPU bottleneck mean?

"bottleneck" is a term to indicate the weakest link in a chain. for example the "bottleneck" in a manufacturing process could be the time paint needs to dry.

 

in terms of a computer, a "bottleneck" is when you can point to a single part or aspect of a computer and say "this is the bottleneck", or in other words: this component is the slowest link for this particular workload.

[Omikor]

25 minutes ago, minibois said:

What CPU+GPU combo do you have?

I'm using GTX 1060 6gb and i5 7500... I know the cpu isn't so good, but this was my first computer build and I didn't know much about cpus...

[Promosss]

34 minutes ago, Omikor said:

I have a question. Let's say I'm playing Call of Duty modern warfare battle royale game. According to the Task Manager, I'm using between 90 to 100 percent of my CPU and 12% of my GPU. Does it mean I can bump the resolution up without affecting the fps? What does CPU bottleneck mean?

 

5 minutes ago, Omikor said:

I'm using GTX 1060 6gb and i5 7500... I know the cpu isn't so good, but this was my first computer build and I didn't know much about cpus...

On what resolution are you playing though? That CPU shouldn't bottleneck a 1060. Unless you're playing something like a 720p/1080p on all low or something like that..

[Omikor]

I'm actually playing at 2k.